Sherry Turkle says: “By texting you make your main points; you can really control when you want the conversation to start and end. You say, “I have to go, goodbye: do it…much better than long goodbyes” (Turkle 190). Social media allows humans to interact with each other almost anywhere and at any time. means the interaction is genuine and/or understands their partners' feelings. Thanks to social media, words can be an exchange between partners, but those words cannot be translated into the feeling the other person is feeling. phone because you are able to hear your partner's voice and conclude what they are feeling. At the start of the trial, Wortham says, “We did all this despite living over 3,000 miles apart, thanks to smartphone apps and services. contributed to the collapse of time and space” (Wortham 393). Social media is the main form of communication between couples who live thousands of miles apart